The YouTube trawl continues, this time looking at New Wave Theatre, the Los Angeles-based UHF/USA Network music series that I've always been very curious about but I've never actually seen very much of. My knowledge of it comes from a couple of places -- old-punker friends who either grew up in L.A. or saw it in the early years of Night Flight (before my folks got cable), and from the trailer at the beginning of Rhino Video's 1990 We're All Devo compilation. There are a couple of long-out-of-print volumes of New Wave Theatre floating around on VHS; one of these days I'll take the plunge and buy them, except that I worry about it all eventually being released on DVD with fabulous packaging and extras. The clips below were either digitized from those tapes, or are viral marketing for an upcoming DVD set (*crosses fingers*).
The Subjects (from the comments section, all sics stetted: "A Band from Glendale, CA. The lead singer Nick Willicent was a 30 year
old catholic school teacher from Burbank, the Girl is Brenda Rodriguez
17 a Student of Nick's. The band had some airplay on the Rodney
Bingahimers show on Kroq with their song called I'm Mechanical. Steve
is the lead guitar player with the blow-dry. Steve is now a
multi-millionaire from LA who owns LA Nut House.")
The Plugz - "Elizabeth"
Fear - "Fuck Christmas"/"Mengele"
Peter Ivers - "Slap the Ginkels"
Kaos - "Nuclear Nightmare"
Geza X - "Practicing Mice"
Geza X - "Isotope Soap"
Circle Jerks - "Wild In The Streets"
45 Grave - "Black Cross"
45 Grave - "Wax"
The Unknowns
Suburban Lawns - "Janitor"
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